Our report highlights our efforts and performance in numerous environmental, social, and governance areas. Our priorities include worker safety and wellbeing, community partnership, and biodiversity protection.
Hecla is focused on efficient, sustainable practices, safe and inclusive workforce development, and decision-making that accounts for shifting geopolitical trends that impact where we operate and our stakeholders’ priorities. We follow a central framework of values that touches all aspects of operations and planning, setting forth a vision of fully integrated sustainability and responsibility.
Learn about our Company’s responsibility to the environment in the communities where we operate.
We achieved net zero on Scope 1 & 2 carbon emissions for the 3rd year in a row with the use of carbon offset credits and reduced emissions by 36% from 2019 baseline.
We continue to reduce energy use, achieving a 24% reduction in energy consumption company-wide compared to our 2019 baseline.
We achieved an All-Injury Frequency Rate of 1.45, marking a 76% reduction since 2012. Our Greens Creek and Lucky Friday mines had their best safety results ever – an AIFR of 0.29 and 0.66, respectively.
Renewable hydropower is one of our largest sources of purchased electricity. Our Casa Berardi and Greens Creek mines use around 100%; Keno Hill, 86%; and the hydropower/natural gas mix at Lucky Friday is 60% renewable.
To support our ESG commitments, we created two new leadership roles: Director of Indigenous Affairs and Canadian Community Relations, and Corporate Tailings Manager, who oversees our tailings facilities across our sites.
We generated a total economic impact of more than $855 million in the communities where we operate.
Sustainability isn’t just a corporate practice, it’s a way of operating at the employee and mine site level.
